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How many copies did Puzzle Agent 2 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 73k–119k
$101k–$270k after Steam's cut $183k–$416k before the cut
from 1k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Puzzle Agent 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Puzzle Agent 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.0M
best case 1.7M (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy)
Games like Puzzle Agent 2

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–2.0M copies

≈ $9.2M–$18.8M after Steam's cut

from ~36k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.7M–$28.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Detective (7 of 8) and Mystery (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Detective + Visual Novel, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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